It is the only bugle call in America’s armed forces with multiple purposes, according to former Taps for Veterans President Jari Villanueva. "I strive to play that call as perfectly as I can ...

Many came out to watch her play. One neighbor remarked ... READ MORE:RETRO FIND: Bugler played ‘Taps’ nightly to honor fallen soldiers CHECK OUT WPTZ:Get the latest Plattsburgh and Burlington ...

Sadly, the sound of “Taps” presented by an onsite bugler is no longer a part of the military funeral scene in Litchfield or many other parts of the state. Today, military funerals here end ...

But it is playing those 24 notes in taps, and providing a final salute to ... He strongly laments that, in many services, an electronic bugle salute has replaced a live version.

Stroud is no stranger to Taps, as he says he’s been playing the bugle horn most of his life. “When I was 14, I started sounding taps in a little cemetery in Kansas at the end of World War II ...

The crack of gunfire and notes of the bugle echoed across the hills Monday ... followed by the gun salute and concluding with the playing of taps. At the kickoff ceremony at Carson Valley ...